British-trained Norwegian intelligence agent Tore Haugland has enough worries when he is sent to a tiny fishing hamlet on the west coast of Norway to set up a line to receive arms and agents from England via the “Shetland Bus.” Posing as a deaf fisherman, his mission is complicated when he falls in love with Anna Fromme, the German widow of an old family friend. Accused of betraying her husband, she has a small daughter and secrets of her own. Though the Allies have liberated France and the Netherlands, the most zealous of the Nazis hang on in Norway, sending out agents to disembowel local resistance groups. If Haugland fails it could not only cost him his life, but those of the fishermen who have joined him. When Haugland is betrayed and left for dead, he will not only have to find the one who betrayed him and destroyed his network, but also prove that the one he loved was not the informer. The Jøssing Affair is a highly enriching experience, a fascinating and profound work of historical fiction penned by, J.L. Oakley, one of the best in the business. A certain testimony to the underground heroes of WWII who put aside personal safety for a cause much bigger than themselves. Their courage is acknowledged in this superbly gripping novel. ~Chanticleer Book reviews. June 2017 J. L. Oakley's rich, satisfyingly atmospheric novel The Jøssing Affair s set in the midst of the Second World War in Nazi-occupied Norway. A Norwegian named Tore Haugland, trained by British intelligenceservices, returns to Norway intent on creating a pocket of resistancecentered on a west coast fishing village, with the aim of receivingsmuggled arms and supplies from the British in defiance of Nazi rule.Haugland's mission is complicated when he falls in love with a Germanwidow and is later betrayed, seemingly by somebody he had come to trust. Oakley juggles all these elements very smoothly. First-rate WWII-era espionage fiction. ~Historical Novel Society. May 2016 Oakleydoes a first-rate job of setting the scene, describing the landscape,developing the characters, and conveying the tension and paranoia of the time. ~The Bookmonger. May 2016 The Jossing Affair by J.L. Oakley brings the reader into a lesser-known part of World War II, the work of the Norwegian Resistance during Norway’s occupation by Germany. …Oakley provides the reader with a satisfying historical novel, filled with details about the German occupation, the Norwegian countryside, and its cities. I was particularly struck by the way the details were worked comfortably into the narrative…The Jossing Affair is a complex read, one which will provide the reader with a deeper understanding of the costs of war for all involved. ~Military Writers Society of America July 2020 My historical novel, The Jøssing Affair, has always been special to me.  When people ask me how I got interested in Norway in WW II, I tell them that I dreamed about a man in the snow. That part is true. Snow determined place. Time in France as a student and seeing all the war memorials to those shot resisting was another. I immediately went to the library and began my research which led to correspondence with resistance museums in Norway, interviews with Norwegian- Americans in my area who lived during the occupation and many, many articles and books. It took over two decades to get the book out, but I'm glad that it's here now. One of my heroes is Conrad Bonnevie-Svendsen, the minister for the deaf in Norway and high-ranking member of the civilian side of the Resistance. I treasure a letter from a friend of his. Another hero is the ordinary people who resisted in their own way, including the rugged fishermen on the West Coast of Norway. As the novel gets noticed in the Scandinavian community, people are sharing their family stories with me. Award-winning author J.L. Oakley writes historical fiction that spans the mid-19th century to WW II with characters standing up for something in their own time and place. she grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After college, she worked her way west to the Hawaiian Islands. While going to school there, she met her future husband and for a time they lived on the Big Island. They moved to the Pacific Northwest where they raised three sons. An historian as well as an award winning author, her writings appear in various magazines, anthologies, and literary publications. Before publication, The Jossing Affair, was a finalist twice at the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest and in 2013, received a first place Chaucer category win. Her other historical novels, Tree Soldier, set in 1930s Pacific NW, won the 2012 EPIC ebook Award, selected as an Everybody Reads, and the 2012 Chanticleer Grand Prize. Its prequel, Timber Rose, won a silver in historical fiction from the prestigious 2015 WILLA Awards and a first place 2014 Chaucer Award. Recently, she began writing mysteries. Saddle Road and Coconut Islands, Lei Crime Kindle World novellas, are best sellers. Wh